PMO/PM

Company ProfileMorgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.Finance TechnologyFinance Technology is responsible for developing Finance applications for a diverse set of businesses including Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities and Investment Banking. The focus is on producing the Firm?s books and records in a timely, accurate and efficient way, while complying with regulatory requirements across all entities and jurisdictions.Job DescriptionSeeking an exceptional Senior Project Management professional with 10+ years of experience of project management in a technology environment to join the PMO team in providing facilitation, documentation, planning and reporting expertise for the General Ledger Business Adoption Program. This is a major multi-year program following the renovation of the Firms? General Ledger Application with a 3rd party industry standard product by SAP, and there are approximately 100 IT and Finance resources working in the global program team. This role will involve coordinating with technology managers, business analysts, adopter teams and the PMO team. The main responsibilities are managing the GLR PMO team members, ensuring that the project plans are regularly updated based on meetings with the relevant team leads and the program resource changes are tracked and applied across the multiple project plans, and the maintenance of PMO procedure documentation. The ideal candidate is proactive, diligent, and thrives in an environment of change. This role also includes PMO responsibilities for the GL & Reporting IT Department of approximately 230 IT resources across three sub-departments. The main areas of responsibility are budget forecast updates, resourcing requests, monthly reporting and PLC approvals and is a mixture of hands-on work and collating/reviewing the feedback from the each sub-department PMO at an overall Departmental level.

Required Skills*Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills*Knowledge and experience of Project Management techniques / methodologies *Ability to interact and empathize with development teams, demonstrating the ability to act as a value add partner for those teams *Must be comfortable working with senior level managers across a global organization *Ability to manage multiple activities to aggressive deadlines *Strong Microsoft Project skills including demonstrable experience of constructing and critiquing project plans *Microsoft Office proficiency in Excel (Pivot Tables, Vlookups), Powerpoint *Experience with budget forecasting using PPM Staffing Planner*Strong commitment to high quality standards*Experience of working in fast moving and demanding environment*Excellent time management skills, ability to efficiently prioritize and multitask, and work under pressure to meet deadlines and team objectives*Experience with investment banking, and application development projects Desired Skills* PMP Certification is a nice to have* Experience with managing Agile projects would be an advantage